Series Thread: Let's take 4 from the hated A's!

[TheRangerDude]

He won't start at least friday at home and maybe not then if he's still got the bad shoulder

Oh wow... I really am out of the loop. Was wondering why he wasn't starting this game... he is our best starter imo. Well, hopefully Cobra takes it to em bet he gives more than 4 innings.

 

[TheRangerDude]

I thought Colby was pitching tomorrow.

Yeah I was wrong, just assumed... sorry about that.

 

[Duane1952]

Yeah I was wrong, just assumed... sorry about that.

No problem, hope Colby has a good game.

 

[WilltheThrill]

I had the weirdest dream last night. I dreamt that we had Mike Young, Ian Kinsler, CJ Wilson, Josh Hamilton, Mike Napoli, and Nelson Cruz in or near the prime of their careers and somehow we got rid of all of them so we could massively overpay Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo to do a whole lot of nothing for us. I also dreamt that we went totally insane and gave Andrus and Harrison a combined $28 Million per year to also do nothing for us. In this crazy dream we also refused to trade Mike Olt for a legit stud in Zack Greinke and instead we waited to trade Olt as part of a package for Matt f'ing Garza. If that weren't enough, we ruined a few legit bullpen arms by trying to convert them into starters and chased off our most revered Hall of Fame legend from the franchise.

In short, we made literally every wrong decision possible and found ourselves a laughing stock just 4 years removed from a World Series run. It was the craziest dream, I tell ya.

2011 Rangers payroll: $93 Million
2015 Rangers payroll: $135 Million

Going from first to worst only cost us $42 Million.

 

[Nightcrawler]

Choo has been the biggest Ranger bust since Chan Ho Park so far.

 

[UK Cowboy]

........THUD........Man it's gonna be a long year. This squad looks like it has no identity, no spark, no nothing. Echoing what Will said, WTF happened? This things been ran into the ground...quickly

 

[WastinSomeTime]

I had the weirdest dream last night. I dreamt that we had Mike Young, Ian Kinsler, CJ Wilson, Josh Hamilton, Mike Napoli, and Nelson Cruz in or near the prime of their careers and somehow we got rid of all of them so we could massively overpay Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo to do a whole lot of nothing for us. I also dreamt that we went totally insane and gave Andrus and Harrison a combined $28 Million per year to also do nothing for us. In this crazy dream we also refused to trade Mike Olt for a legit stud in Zack Greinke and instead we waited to trade Olt as part of a package for Matt f'ing Garza. If that weren't enough, we ruined a few legit bullpen arms by trying to convert them into starters and chased off our most revered Hall of Fame legend from the franchise.

In short, we made literally every wrong decision possible and found ourselves a laughing stock just 4 years removed from a World Series run. It was the craziest dream, I tell ya.

2011 Rangers payroll: $93 Million
2015 Rangers payroll: $135 Million

Going from first to worst only cost us $42 Million.

The payroll was going to increase regardless. I loved Cruz and Napoli and hated losing them. But we tried to sign Napoli to a 3 year contract for around 39 mill if I recall the year before he left. Not signing Cruz is totally on us. But you cannot tell me that Hamilton would have done anything for this team at the price he was going to cost us. And MY, I love the guy but his time was up. And the Rangers cannot help what happened to Profar which is why Ian was traded which I am okay with. I like Odor though and feel he will produce. And I thought Harrison was a good signing at the time but no one knew what happened to him was going to happen. Funny, I am not seeing all the positives that were done that helped get this team to those World Series. You are great at hindsight. You can go ahead and jump off the wagon now.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Gallardo looked terrible. He couldn't locate any of his pitches, and this was a big strike zone tonight.

He was all over the place but depending on the umpire I thought many of those breaking pitches were strikes low in the zone where it needs to be. The ump was calling hard pitches low but not the breaking pitches. And the A's were good and laying off of those low breaking pitches. Tough night all the way around.

 

[donaldson79]

Choo has been the biggest Ranger bust since Chan Ho Park so far.

He was terrific last season - offensively anyway - until he got hurt. And he SHOULD have been shut-down much earlier in the year, which is totally on management, not Choo.

Now he's played one whole game in the new season and he's a bust.

Jesus, you're the worst one game over-reactionary on this site.

 

[donaldson79]

I gave up the ghost about the 6th inning last night and departed to see if I could find some enjoyment on another channel. Left here as well.

But after awaking today and looking at some of these posts, you'd think we were 45 games into the season and we're 15-30.

Several days ago we were bantering around the Vegas O/U for this team, which is 76.5. I said I'd take the under. And 5 wolves showed up at my doorstep.

Where did all the "this team is an 80-85 win team" or "we can certainly compete for a WC" posters go after this ONE - albeit horrible - game?

Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint - as we all know - so relax a little after one game please.

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

I gave up the ghost about the 6th inning last night and departed to see if I could find some enjoyment on another channel. Left here as well.

But after awaking today and looking at some of these posts, you'd think we were 45 games into the season and we're 15-30.

Several days ago we were bantering around the Vegas O/U for this team, which is 76.5. I said I'd take the under. And 5 wolves showed up at my doorstep.

Where did all the "this team is an 80-85 win team" or "we can certainly compete for a WC" posters go after this ONE - albeit horrible - game?

Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint - as we all know - so relax a little after one game please.

We're still here...

That said, even if Yu was healthy -- given his history with the A's -- last night would have been a loss anyways.
The "almost being no hit" kinda sucks, and I still wish they would have made a change at hitting coach... but its just the first of 162.

 

[romeo212000]

I gave up the ghost about the 6th inning last night and departed to see if I could find some enjoyment on another channel. Left here as well.

But after awaking today and looking at some of these posts, you'd think we were 45 games into the season and we're 15-30.

Several days ago we were bantering around the Vegas O/U for this team, which is 76.5. I said I'd take the under. And 5 wolves showed up at my doorstep.

Where did all the "this team is an 80-85 win team" or "we can certainly compete for a WC" posters go after this ONE - albeit horrible - game?

Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint - as we all know - so relax a little after one game please.

It's opening day, man. What better time for knee jerk overreaction ?

Seriously though, I'm just going to chalk last night up to "it wasn't our night." Yes, we were bad at the plate, and yes Gallardo was bad. However, we also had some bad luck. Some fairly well hit balls just died in the air, and our line drives and hard hit grounders couldn't find a hole if we were remotely controlling them. The players were obviously a little jacked up too.

Now Elvis.... That's a different story. What I saw from him last night looked like the same shit we saw last year. He couldn't even make it one fucking game without an error, and those plate appearances were pure garbage. I'm giving him very little leeway after what I saw last night. Not that my leeway means a damn thing.

I honestly was just mostly pisses we were on the verge of getting no hit. What an awful way to start the season. I was relieved when I saw Rua broke it up, and change my attitude to, "we'll get em tomorrow."

 

[romeo212000]

We're still here...

That said, even if Yu was healthy -- given his history with the A's -- last night would have been a loss anyways.
The "almost being no hit" kinda sucks, and I still wish they would have made a change at hitting coach... but its just the first of 162.

I still have faith this team can score some runs. Fielder, Beltre, and Choo will definitely get theirs, and I am cautiously optimistic Rua, Martin, and Odor can do some damage.

I have zero faith in Andrus right now. I'm already so fed up with him, and that contract is making me sick to my stomach.

 

[romeo212000]

He was terrific last season - offensively anyway - until he got hurt. And he SHOULD have been shut-down much earlier in the year, which is totally on management, not Choo.

Now he's played one whole game in the new season and he's a bust.

Jesus, you're the worst one game over-reactionary on this site.

Ladies and gentlemen. I give you Nightcrawler...

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Dave Magadan has his own hashtag: #NeverEverHit

 

[WilltheThrill]

The payroll was going to increase regardless. I loved Cruz and Napoli and hated losing them. But we tried to sign Napoli to a 3 year contract for around 39 mill if I recall the year before he left. Not signing Cruz is totally on us. But you cannot tell me that Hamilton would have done anything for this team at the price he was going to cost us. And MY, I love the guy but his time was up. And the Rangers cannot help what happened to Profar which is why Ian was traded which I am okay with. I like Odor though and feel he will produce. And I thought Harrison was a good signing at the time but no one knew what happened to him was going to happen. Funny, I am not seeing all the positives that were done that helped get this team to those World Series. You are great at hindsight. You can go ahead and jump off the wagon now.

There is so much wrong with your post here, I almost don't even know where to begin. First and foremost, I am NOT some bandwagon fan. To suggest so is supremely ignorant on your part and quite frankly insulting. I have been a loyal Rangers fan since the days of Toby Harrah and Rusty Staub. Since I was 3 years old I have been going to Rangers games and 34 years later nothing has changed. I have stuck by this team through the many bleak years and will continue to do so.

This notion that a "real" or "true" fan can't speak badly about the team is complete nonsense. Just because the current team is a shell of the 2011 version doesn't mean I can't voice my displeasure.

Also, you COMPLETELY missed the point of my post. I never said that the Rangers were wrong for getting rid of Hamilton, Young, etc.. NOWHERE did I say that. What I did say was that we replaced those guys with 2 overpaid guys who have given us nothing. The decision to jettison all of those old players wasn't wrong... it was how we replaced them.

Get off your high horse. Everything in my post was 100% accurate. If you are pleased with what has become of the team since 2011 then you live in complete ignorant bliss with your head buried in the sand.

 

[scotsman1948]

........THUD........Man it's gonna be a long year. This squad looks like it has no identity, no spark, no nothing. Echoing what Will said, WTF happened? This things been ran into the ground...quickly

that was a major league stinker last night but there are still 161 games left so hang in there

 

[saddles]

Wow. There is a lot of overreaction going on here.

This team's offense is going to be weak. I guess I was already prepared for it so last night didn't shock me. Against good pitching we are going to look lost a lot.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Wow. There is a lot of overreaction going on here.

This team's offense is going to be weak. I guess I was already prepared for it so last night didn't shock me. Against good pitching we are going to look lost a lot.

We need Rudy Jaramillo back.

 

[saddles]

There is so much wrong with your post here, I almost don't even know where to begin. First and foremost, I am NOT some bandwagon fan. To suggest so is supremely ignorant on your part and quite frankly insulting. I have been a loyal Rangers fan since the days of Toby Harrah and Rusty Staub. Since I was 3 years old I have been going to Rangers games and 34 years later nothing has changed. I have stuck by this team through the many bleak years and will continue to do so.

This notion that a "real" or "true" fan can't speak badly about the team is complete nonsense. Just because the current team is a shell of the 2011 version doesn't mean I can't voice my displeasure.

Also, you COMPLETELY missed the point of my post. I never said that the Rangers were wrong for getting rid of Hamilton, Young, etc.. NOWHERE did I say that. What I did say was that we replaced those guys with 2 overpaid guys who have given us nothing. The decision to jettison all of those old players wasn't wrong... it was how we replaced them.

Get off your high horse. Everything in my post was 100% accurate. If you are pleased with what has become of the team since 2011 then you live in complete ignorant bliss with your head buried in the sand.

I do think JD went after Choo and Fielder almost in desperation. He didn't want to admit the team was in rebuild mode. Not many GMs have the guts to do that, but the offseason after the 2013 season should have been one where we spent more than we did, but on different players, or we should have not spent at all. We had too many holes to fill with just 2 players and especially with those 2. After the 2013 season JD could have went all in or rebuilt. He decided to go half way in and that was a bad solution. He probably should have just bit the bullet and rebuilt this thing. Fortunately he didn't throw good money after bad money this past offseason, but then again the budget didn't allow him to anyway based on his statements from October of 2013 when he said they wouldn't increase the budget in each of the next two offseasons.